Senior Software Developer

Menlo Ventures; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech start-up is seeking a motivated software engineer for their core database team. The role involves working on complex algorithms and performance optimizations across all areas of the software stack. Candidates should have a strong programming background and experience with high performance computing. Join this innovative team and tackle exciting computer science challenges in the cloud data space.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience developing and shipping software.
• Strong knowledge of high performance parallel and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with algorithms like hashing, sorting, searching, aggregation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship improvements to the core query execution stack.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues encountered in the field.

Skills

C

C++

Parallel programming

Distributed systems

Big Data algorithms

Job description

Yellowbrick Data is a modern cloud Data Warehouse start-up headquartered in Silicon Valley. We are a flexible multi-cloud solution, winning customers with our incredible speed and controllable costs. Our technology is used by the world’s largest insurers, credit card companies, telcos and healthcare firms, all of whom depend on our products to make critical decisions quickly without compromising the security of their data. Yellowbrick is well- funded with $248m raised from top-tier venture firms.

Job Overview
We’re a driven R&D team, solving hard-core computer science problems at all levels of the stack. What we do isn’t easy: We design hardware, build an operating system, have created an entire enterprise-grade database from scratch with remote support capability, and actively build and maintain business continuity functions and a growing set of ecosystem integrations. Our database deploys both on-premises and in the cloud.

We are looking for a motivated software engineer to work in our core database team in areas such as query execution, performance optimization, cluster management, addition of semantic search capabilities and efficient storage of document embeddings. You'll have the opportunity to work in all areas of our software stack which includes almost every aspect of computer science - from hardware to operating systems and user interfaces and everything in between.

You’re a computer scientist who loves algorithms, massively parallel programming, multicore architecture and performance optimizations. You find compilers, parsers, grammars and compilers interesting, you find parallel sorting, aggregation, indexing and joining algorithms interesting, have a flair for creative solutions to generating more efficient machine instructions, and hopefully you’ve worked in one or more of these areas. You like Big Data algorithms that work at scale and concurrency, embrace massive parallelism of algorithms in distributed systems and don’t get scared by NP complete problems or dynamic programming.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship improvements to our core query execution stack
• Help troubleshoot and fix issues encountered in the field

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience developing and shipping software that users are successfully running in production.
• High performance parallel, distributed systems
• Fundamental computer science – as many of these as possible:
  • Hashing, sorting, searching, aggregation
  • Indexing
  • Distributed database algorithms
  • File systems
  • Operating systems – threading, scheduling, memory management
  • TCP and RDMA networking
  • Multi-core programming and memory models
  • Compilers – front end, internals or back-ends
  • SQL and relational databases
  • Internals of open source or commercial databases
• Strong knowledge of C and C++
• Assembly language, including vector processing
• Java application server experience

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